A simple craft activity where students research an Arctic or Antarctic explorer and make index cards with pictures and information about the explorers on them. The cards are then connected by paper clips or string to make a dangling string for each explorer or expedition to be hung around the room.

Students follow PolarTREC expeditions, and create their own journals of scientific discovery along the way.

What do polar researchers do? Explore this question and more with this interesting activity.

Students create scaled models of the Taylor Valley glaciers and lakes (or any valley of your choice!). This lesson covers basic glacial features and has students reading and using Topo maps to construct a replica of Taylor Valley, Antarctica (or the valley of your choice!).

Students develop original research questions to assess the environmental conditions at a local pond (depth, temperature, light, turbidity, carbon dioxide levels, species diversity, pH, stratification (temp/light/biological) within the pond, etc. This lesson integrates the use of Probe-ware with inquiry-based methods and ecosystem dynamics.

Much like an owl pellet, a bolus is all the indigestible material that is “thrown up” by an albatross.

Explore Antarctica online!

How does the salt content of water affect its ability to freeze?

An Interactive look at the Oceanic Biological Pump